St. John’s bid: Was one of two finalists to replace John Gagliardi as St. John’s football coach. Grant withdrew his name at the last minute. The exact reasons remain unclear, though Grant said, “Twenty things had to line up, and not enough things lined up. Everything has to fit.”

U.S. Bank Stadium operator SMG abruptly terminated Tuesday the contract with security provider Monterrey Security one year into a three-year contract amid concerns that it failed to comply with state licensing requirements for its employees.

In one of the biggest crackdowns on the corrupting role of money in college basketball, 10 men — including a top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches — were charged Tuesday with using hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to influence star athletes' choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, even tailors.

In a story Sept. 25 about NFL ratings, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the 16.04 million average viewership for NFL games this year took only Sunday afternoon games into account. In fact, the figure is a measurement of all games that were shown to a national audience, which includes some games played on Sunday, Monday and Thursday nights.

No matter what other challenges his administration faces, President Donald Trump is keeping up his running commentary on the NFL — tweeting Tuesday about the football league's TV ratings and suggesting it bar players from kneeling during the national anthem.